Synopsis

Belly Talkers is a 7-minute animation about the experience of growing up with a chronic vocal tic disorder and its ties to memory and trauma. The film explores what it would be like to interact with the personification of the vocal tic, using recordings of the director’s vocal tics from the past two years as dialogue. As the connections between the main character of the film and the personified tic begin to unravel, the film’s medium gets increasingly complex and varied.

DIRECTOR

Kate Renshaw-Lewis

Kate Renshaw-Lewis is an experimental animator with a focus on hand-drawn animation and how the tactility of the medium can strengthen the connection between the viewer and the film. Her pieces are surreal metaphoric explorations of the layers within our internal and external realities. She gained her BFA in experimental animation from CalArts in 2021.